curdler

"curdler," he at once singles it out for the delectation of those whose taste is in the same direction.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various

The first book of his I read, and I highly recommend it as an introduction to the dude, was The Blind Barber, a well-written hairraising blood-curdler featuring the deductive reasoning of a character Carr called, Doctor Gideon Fell, a huge man who needed two canes to get about and whose detective style more resembled that of old Doctor Samuel Johnson than it did Sherlock Holmes.

Non-Hollywood Compos Mentis The Daily Growler 2006

"I am the American blood-curdler," it said, in a voice which seemed to come in a hollow murmur from the earth beneath it.

Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

Occasionally, when my window is open, and their window is open, he will let out a real blood curdler, and I jump.

SMITH Magazine Superfeed 2008